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Tres Torres

Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico

Client: New Inc., International

Located in the periphery of Juarez, Tres Torres is surrounded by a conventional landscape of sprawl: housing tracts, retail strips, highways and fragmented, underused parcels of agricultural land. The overarching market and cultural objective of the project was to generate a superior New Urbanist neighborhood with a form familiar yet new that would appeal to the local community.

The design for this 35-acre, 387-lot neighborhood is based on traditional urbanist ideas, many of which have their roots in Mexican urbanism reaching back to the Laws of the Indies. This pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use, income-inclusive and house-diverse neighborhood knits together an urban fabric of interconnected streets and blocks. Climate-specific architectural form, enhanced with drought-resistant plants and private patios gives the impression of a verdant garden city in the desert.